Abstract Movies

  • 1940
    Tarantella

    Tarantella

    Tarantella

    5.91940HD

    Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials...

    Tarantella
  • 2017
    Rodez

    Rodez

    Rodez

    102017HD

    An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering...

    Rodez
  • 1980
    Infinity

    Infinity

    Infinity

    61980HD

    A cosmic experimental film by Jordan Belson, set to music by Iasos.

    Infinity
  • 2019
    The Goal Is To Live

    The Goal Is To Live

    The Goal Is To Live

    102019HD

    The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which...

    The Goal Is To Live
  • 1961
    Blazes

    Blazes

    Blazes

    4.91961HD

    100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

    Blazes
  • 1999
    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    01999HD

    At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
  • 1980
    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    6.51980HD

    Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
  • 1973
    Serenade

    Serenade

    Serenade

    01973HD

    Serenade is a milestone in the history of dance. It is the first original ballet George Balanchine created in America in 1934, and is one of the...

    Serenade
  • 1965
    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    6.31965HD

    Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

    Early Abstractions
  • 1956
    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    5.81956HD

    Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

    No. 11: Mirror Animations
  • 2007
    Corpora Vilia

    Corpora Vilia

    Corpora Vilia

    102007HD

    An abstract and tense short exploring the inner and outer body via the use of various types of plants.

    Corpora Vilia
  • 1990
    Anyway

    Anyway

    Anyway

    8.51990HD

    Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as...

    Anyway
  • 2023
    Mensbeeld

    Mensbeeld

    Mensbeeld

    02023HD

    mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

    Mensbeeld
  • 1977
    Wet Paint

    Wet Paint

    Wet Paint

    81977HD

    [The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of...

    Wet Paint
  • 1973
    Evolution of the Red Star

    Evolution of the Red Star

    Evolution of the Red Star

    71973HD

    Opening with a classic image of Chairman Mao spewing red star tears, this animation is a masterful example of Beckett’s distinctive technique...

    Evolution of the Red Star
  • 2012
    Chase

    Chase

    Chase

    02012HD

    An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.

    Chase
  • 2023
    Brute

    Brute

    Brute

    102023HD

    A man has a breakdown after losing his job and winning a bar fight.

    Brute
  • 2012
    Alone with the Moon

    Alone with the Moon

    Alone with the Moon

    02012HD

    Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendo-ing in time with Christopher...

    Alone with the Moon
  • 2022
    Thine Own Self

    Thine Own Self

    Thine Own Self

    02022HD

    Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

    Thine Own Self
  • 2019
    Number Two

    Number Two

    Number Two

    02019HD

    Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama...

    Number Two